Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nature’s first green is gold,    

Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
-Robert Frost-

Spent my days in hospital on the first week of my holiday, since my 94 years old  grandpa is no longer healthy. From the x-ray photograph, we found out that our grandpa now has only one side of his lung left. He has to endure great pain even just for breathing, sumthin’ people rarely thankful of when they’re healthy. It’s even painful enough to hear his screams sometimes when he just cannot endure his pain anymore. Sat on a chair next to his bed, there’s nothing I could do to reduce his pain, but just prayin’.
It all reminds me to Robert Frost’s ‘Nothing Gold Can Stay’ that there’s nothing in the world can last forever, that just like the fresh leaf which as time goes by fades away and turn into a dead leaf, each of us will finally come to that point as well.
That image does not scare me actually. What actually bothers me about my grandpa’s a single question whether he has believed in Our Lord’s salvation or not. That he’d be saved by grace and get the gift of eternal life.